Failed doomsday predictions

Friday's forecast doomsday is one of many visions predicting the end of the world through history.

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Anabaptists of Munster -- A group of Anabaptists, one of the many radical sects that emerged following the Protestant Reformation, assumed control of the German town of Munster in the 1530s and hailed it as a New Jerusalem awaiting the return of Christ. Their hold over Munster ended with a bloody siege in 1535.